'Night at the Museum 3': The Failure of the VFX Blockbuster

Nestor 2022-04-23 07:02:29

In the third part of the movie, all the plots that can be mined have been fully developed, and the plot is in a state of exhaustion. Although the plot is not particularly obvious in this series, but for this era of special effects explosion In, too much reliance on special effects can not get people's favor. We went to see this movie with a nostalgic and sought-after mentality, but the feeling of the past was destroyed by the shy and self-styled creative concept, and we couldn’t find the genes that could stimulate our excitement. The dazzling special effects can really shock the sensory impact that the movie brings to us, but the overly exaggerated plot seriously weakens the spiritual fun that the movie can bring us. The quality and connotation of the film are the absolute elements that really lead the film to become a classic. Even if the visual effects are exquisite and exquisite, at most it is just a gold and jade with its own appearance. However, the movie just failed to grasp this point. Instead, it blindly and conservatively paved the way for the sequel in a more conservative way. Not only did it not create a more exciting sequel story, but it made the originally small subject story even smaller. Thin, even the luxurious lineup with many star cameos has not been able to save the movie from being in the minority. It is obviously a dead end to attract audiences simply by means of entertainment, perhaps because this movie is the end of the entire series. , and did not take this into account. On top of the lack of a plot that can be tapped, special effects are used to cover up the shortcomings of the plot. From the perspective of today's film development trend, it is obviously used in the wrong place. "Transformers" is just a kind of Exceptionally, no one can replicate his brutal cinematic form.

The movie got off to a good start, using a very imaginative and suspenseful atmosphere to guide the story in a possibly thrilling and ever-changing direction, but the follow-up story is too weak, obviously not able to stitch together the atmosphere rendered at the beginning of the movie, anticlimactic. The setting makes us look forward to the higher the disappointment. People who haven't seen the first two movies may not be annoyed by the mistakes of the movie's plot twist, because the movie still presents an imaginative and explosive visual effect, but For people who have watched the first two films, the development of the film seems to be becoming less and less progressive and less enterprising. Not only does the story fail to jump out of the original frame, but instead sinks into the old age. Old things, lack of novelty and sincerity have become the weakest underbelly of the movie, and once the plot of a movie is mainly focused on the special effects of the movie, even if it is a family-friendly entertainment movie, its entertainment effect is obvious. It will be greatly discounted, and the commercial atmosphere is too strong. Once people think that it is just a movie made to make money, the entertainment effect it can bring will not be so satisfactory. Of course, commercial films are the pursuit of profit, but if they deviate from the framework of the pursuit of film art, the influence and attractiveness formed by them will be gone. They are just overdrafting the signs of a series of films, and the consequences will inevitably be devastating. , that is to say, the value of refinement can no longer be found in the entire series of movies, and its sense of existence and influence will cease to exist. This film has a very strong atmosphere of the times, and it also makes the best use of the technology of the times. The technical victory is beneficial to the reconciliation of the film itself, but it is also harmful to the film itself. Teenage crowd.

As for Ben Stiller's performance, we can only say that the performance level of this cold-faced comedian is really terrible. His role is almost spent in an environment of being ignored. The appearance of individual characters seems to cover up his existence, and makes him the biggest vase in the whole movie. For the whole movie with a sense of hilarity, the laughing point is the most concentrated on the protagonist Ben Stiller. He neither creates a sense of crisis, nor does he really support the role of the core of the team. , on the contrary, the emotional effect of the whole story situation is reduced to the worst, and combined with the absurd structure of the film plot, the whole film looks like a kind of brainless American humor, which not only fails to make people laugh, but is also regarded as a joke by others. Fool, this will inevitably directly reduce the IQ of the movie, and it will be reduced to the same level as children's cartoons.

As the end of the entire series, the production can be said to be very good, and the star lineup of the luxurious lineup is also worth the ticket price, especially the use of special effects in the film, which does not hesitate to render the whole film for that kind of scene. Foreshadowing with imagination, it is just that the too weakened plot cannot carry the quality that the film itself should have. From the inside out, instead of exuding a kind of heroism of a big production, it has become a second-class commercial work. This has to be said that it is a film production. The failure of the author is also the failure of the Hollywood blockbuster.

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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb quotes

  • Jedediah: Where the heck are we?

    [the Pompeii volcano starts]

    Octavius: Ohh... Pompeii.

    [They ran away in the Pompeii exhibit as lava comes after them]

    Jedediah: This is the last round up!

    [the lava comes close to them until Dexter the monkey pees on them and the lava to save them]

    Octavius: We must never speak of what happend here today.

    [Dexter pees on them again]

    Jedediah: Come on, that wasn't necessary!

  • [from trailer]

    Laa: Dada!

    Larry Daley: No, no, i'm not your dada. Yes, we look similar.

    Laa: Dada.

    Larry Daley: No touching.

    [He slaps Laa's hand]

    Larry Daley: Stop it.